Sarah Fraser was promoted to
Associate Director of Athletics for Compliance in July of 2012
after serving as the Assistant Athletics Director for Compliance
and Student Athlete Enrichment since 2005.

Fraser oversees all aspects of
University, Ivy League and NCAA compliance efforts for
Brown’s 37 varsity teams and 900 varsity athletes, including
day-to-day rules education, monitoring, and policy development. She
also serves as the sport supervisor for the women's hockey team,
women’s lacrosse, men’s tennis, and men’s and
women’s squash teams.

Nationally, Fraser serves on
the NCAA Women's Ice Hockey Committee, the NCAA Division I Progress
Toward Degree Waiver Committee and recently finished a term on the
NCAA Men’s and Women’s Ice Hockey Rules Committee. She
is also a member of the NACWAA Legislation & Governance
Committee and the NAAC Education Committee. In addition, Fraser is
on the USA Hockey Board of Directors, completing appointments as an
Athlete Director on the Executive Committee, Appeals Subcommittee,
Playing Rules Committee, Legal Council, Youth Council, and Girls
and Women’s Section. She has also served as the Ivy League
administrator for women’s tennis and women’s hockey,
and was a member of the Ivy League Ice Hockey Concussion
Committee.

Fraser currently holds the
newly created role of Consultant to the American
Women’s Hockey Coaches Association (AWHCA). In that
role, she is responsible for providing administrative direction to
the coaching body and leadership to assist that group in working
effectively within the NCAA governance structure to advance their
legislative and other interests for the good of the women’s
game.

At the University level,
Fraser serves on Brown’s Campus Life Advisory Board, and the
Campus Life Subcommittee on Athletics and Physical Education. She
has previously been a part of the Dean of the College /Campus Life
Working Group, the Ad Hoc Committee on Athletics and Varsity Sports
and the Brown University Data, Privacy, and
Records Management Working Group. She won a Campus Life
Excellence Award in 2012.

Prior to her promotion,
Fraser had a variety of responsibilities in the area of
student-athlete enrichment. In that role, she managed
the Captain’s Leadership Development Program, served as the
advisor to the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, and oversaw
department community service initiatives and the relationship with
the Vartan Gregorian School at Fox Point. Fraser was also the
primary point person for the Senior Celebration banquet and varsity
awards, NCAA Student-Athlete Affairs initiatives, and the
student-athlete handbook.

From 2001-03, Fraser served as the
Assistant Commissioner for Women's Hockey at the ECAC where she
handled day-to-day administration and management of the Division I
Women's Hockey League, including public relations, officiating and
the league championship. Fraser's previous professional
experience includes positions in Sports Information at Dartmouth
College, as well as roles in public relations, communications and
publishing in Rhode Island and Connecticut.

A 1998 graduate of Dartmouth where
she completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in Environmental Studies,
Fraser was a two-sport athlete in hockey and track and field and
earned All-America honors on the ice. After graduation she played
on the 1999 U.S. National Team, silver medalists at the IIHF World
Championship. Fraser received a Master of Arts Degree in
Communication Studies from the University of Rhode Island in 2003.
In 2013 she completed the NCAA/NACWAA Institute
for Administrative Advancement.

Fraser is originally from Keweenaw
Bay, Michigan. She and her husband Drew now reside in Cranston,
Rhode Island with sons Ryan and Shane.